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Despite the world's aging population, suitable clothing for the older community is a largely neglected area. This book considers the needs of the growing number of active older people and investigates how recent developments in textiles, fibres, finishes, design and integrated technology can be deployed to serve this group and improve quality of life. Part I provides an understanding of the active aging population by considering the group's experiences of and attitudes towards clothing and reviewing the barriers to their adoption of new wearable technologies. Part II focuses on the needs of

The ageing of the population is an inevitable social development trend and is presenting many challenges to modern society. The issue of population ageing has involved politics, economy, culture, society and other fields. With the increase of ageing population, the well-being of the elderly will determine the realization of harmonious society. The development of education for the elderly is an inevitable trend of social development. Education for the elderly will contribute to the harmonious development of the whole society. The concept of active ageing is gaining popularity among governments. Continuing education for the elderly in the context of active ageing has many potential benefits. Elderly education can improve the quality of life of the elderly, help them maintain physical functions and productivity for a longer period of time, create opportunities for the elderly to form learning groups, meet new friends, increase social participation, and reduce the feeling of alienation. The development of education for the elderly can also help to develop and use the potential human resources of the elderly and thus promote economic development. The analysis of the benefits of elderly education will draw people's attention to the importance of the development of elderly education and encourage people from all walks of life to support the further development of education for the elderly. While there are many benefits of continuing education for the elderly, there exist some challenges, one of which is the lack of special teachers for elderly education. The lack of specialized teachers at the Open University for old people can be solved partly by taking advantage of the learners' lifelong work experience and accumulation of knowledge, and encouraging them to become volunteer teachers. Another solution is to offer various kinds of online courses to facilitate flexible learning at the elderly's convenience. The development of elderly education will contribute to the active ageing process.

This study considers active ageing policies in labour market in ten European countries. The study aims to identify changes to European labour markets in the past 15 years and assess what these changes mean for active ageing policy agendas (i.e. identify barriers and opportunities). In Active Ageing programmes the concepts and aims can be European but the national institutions of each welfare state should appropriate its own programme of social learning. The reason is the clear differences shown to prevail both in the labour markets and in the pace of ageing in individual European countries. However, ageing is more rapid in public sector in all countries. For example in Finland, in government sector in 10 years 75% of leaders and 50% of employees retire. It is argued that one of the main barriers to the employment of older people is inaccurate perceptions about the capabilities of older workers such as long professional experience and the atmosphere of reliability and loyalty to employers. However, one cannot isolate issues pertaining to older workers. Age management is bound to general wellbeing at work places. Successful active ageing policy could also be part of innovative human resource management. An increasing number of firms are adopting new human resource management that has large impact on employeremployee work relations. Many of the positive characteristics of older workers relate to a longer work relationship and particularly the recruitment of new older workers is difficult and should be subsidised. Finally, new senior citizenship should be introduced that also covers retired. This is particularly important when active ageing policies are prone to be conducted by labour market participants (unions and employer federations) that are likely to ignore issues relevant for the retired. ; Tämä tutkimus tarkastelee aktiivisen ikääntymisen ohjelmia työmarkkinoilla kymmenessä Euroopan maassa. Pyrkimyksenä on kuvata muutoksia työmarkkinoilla viimeisen 15 vuoden aikana ja pohtia mitä nämä merkitsevät aktiivisen ikääntymisen ohjelmille (mitä esteitä ja mahdollisuuksia voi havaita). Ikääntymisohjelmissa monet käsitteet ja tavoitteet ovat yleiseurooppalaisia. Kuitenkin kansallisten instituutioiden on asetettava omat sosiaalisen oppimisen ja aktiivisen ikääntymisen ohjelmansa. Syynä tähän on Euroopan maiden eroavaisuudet työmarkkinoilla ja väestön ikääntymisessä. Ikääntyminen on tosin nopeinta julkisella sektorilla kaikissa maissa. Esimerkiksi Suomessa 75 prosenttia esimiehistä ja 50 prosenttia työntekijöistä jää eläkkeelle seuraavan kymmenen vuoden aikana. Tutkimuksessa väitetään, että yksi keskeinen este ikääntyneiden työllistymiselle ovat väärät käsitykset kokeneen työntekijän osaamisesta, joka liittyy pitkään ammattiuraan ja sitoutumiseen yrityksen toimintaan. Tosin vanhempia työntekijöitä ei voida myöskään käsitellä erillisenä kysymyksenä silloin, kun tarkastellaan koko työyhteisön hyvinvointia. Ikäjohtaminen ja erilaisuuden johtaminen koskettaa kaikkien työntekijöiden hyvinvointia. Aktiivinen ikääntymispolitiikka yrityksissä voi myös olla osa uudenlaista henkilöstöjohtamista innovatiivisissa yrityksissä, joita on yhä suurempi osa kaikista yrityksistä. Vanhempien työntekijöiden hyvät ominaisuudet liittyvät usein pitkään työuraan yrityksessä ja siten uusien ikääntyneiden työntekijöiden palkkaaminen on vaikeaa ja sitä on tuettava. Työmarkkinakysymysten lisäksi on kehitettävä seniorikansalaisuuden käsitettä, joka kattaa myös eläkkeellä olevat. Tämä on tärkeää siitä syystä, että ikääntyminen ymmärretään usein vain työmarkkinakysymykseksi, ei vähiten sen vuoksi että ammattiliitot ja työnantajajärjestöt ovat useimmiten keskeisimpiä toimijoita.

In this topical book, older people's volunteering is studied in eight European countries at the structural, macro, meso and micro levels. Overall it highlights how different interactions between the levels facilitate or hinder older people's inclusion in voluntary work and makes policy suggestions for an integrated strategy.

In this topical book older people's volunteering is studied in eight European countries at the structural, macro, meso and micro levels. Overall it highlights how different interactions between the levels facilitate or hinder older people's inclusion in voluntary work and makes policy suggestions for an integrated strategy.

This book explores the adoption of 'active ageing' policies by EU15 nations and the impact on older peoples' work and retirement policy options. Policies examined include unemployment benefits, active labour market policies, partial pension receipt, pension principles, early retirement and incentives for deferral.

In the last 15 years, STS has established a research programme focused on the sociotechnical reconfiguration of later life, particularly as new political programmes aim to deploy 'active ageing' in contemporary societies. In Denmark, the bicycle is a key technology in this aim, because of how it articulates sustainable living, health and social participation. Thus, two new 'inclusive cycling' initiatives for older people have been developed. Drawing on ethnographic data, we explore the ways the bikes differ, and how they explicitly mobilise active ageing as a form of 'good old age' in different ways. We argue that whereas 'Cycling without Age' rickshaws attempt to assemble social participation for older people, 'Duo-Bikes' aim to enable capacities through physical activity in later life. We further explore what happens when these two schemes meet, and suggest how searching for a compromise will be necessary to enhance opportunities to cycle in later life.

AbstractThe purpose of this article is to explore social inequity in palliative care in Denmark, a country that is seen as a stronghold of universal health care. Using data stemming from 2 years of research, we have selected two cases for analysis. They consist of palliative conversations with two quite different patients. Drawing on sociocultural class theory, we find that the conversations involve social exclusion processes due to discourses of active ageing. We find that one privileged patient performs in line with an entrepreneurial self and is supported by the nurse. The other, disadvantaged patient performs in a passive way, and the conversation mainly alleviates the disrespect he has experienced in healthcare encounters. We conclude that palliative care reinforces classifying practices and distinctions between "good" and "bad" patients, when active ageing becomes a dominant factor. We suggest improving the quality and sensitivity of medical training and call for increased reflexivity among professionals on the unequal situation of patients in order to reduce inequity in access to health care when close to death.

In the coming years, the share of elderly people in the whole population will strongly increase in all European Union countries. It is therefore necessary to implement a social inclusion strategy targeted towards older people both for economic and social reasons. This strategy needs to include: a substantial postponement of the retirement age, in order to reduce the burden of pensions costs and to increase total employment; an improvement in the physical condition of older workers; the maintenance of a pensioner income level close to working people's incomes; finally, the involvement of retired people in social activities. Finland is a particularly interesting country to consider, because it has succeeded in raising strongly older workers' employment rates and has launched extensive programmes to promote active ageing and to keep older people at work through social partners' involvement and through an improvement of working conditions. This review aims at analysing these programmes. What are their impacts in terms of raising Finnish older workers activity rates and social inclusion? Can they serve as a model for other EU countries facing the same problems?